Ewan Power
media
National college of art and design
Specialisms: Photography
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Ewan Power
First Name: Ewan
Last Name: Power
Specialisms: Photography
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My Location: Dublin, Ireland
University / College: National college of art and design
Course / Program Title: media
About
Ewan Power is an emerging Irish visual artist and photographer, graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, studying Fine Art Media. His practice focuses on the intimate aspects of life, depicted primarily through analogue photography. Informed by personal experiences and a unique point of view, his work revolves around topics such as vulnerability and visibility. Adopting a diaristic approach to documenting, the work seeks to dismantle notions of public and private, embracing the ambiguity of queer identity and human existence. Also captured within his work is an interest in the live music and queer scene of Dublin and other parts of the world. Power’s work incorporates a search for meaning in the unknown, whilst also retaining a considered and methodical approach to his way of working. By navigating emotion through making, his work speaks to a need to photograph in order to keep going.
Nothing prepares you for the loss of a parent. Your whole world changes, yet everything stays the same. Told through diaristic analogue photography, this work is a fragmented documentation of a period of loss and intensity. The relationship between queerness, grief, and nature is traversed by inhabiting the spaces and surroundings that now possess absence. The camera itself becomes a tool for processing grief. By simply documenting a life lived, the work acts as an intimate portrait of a time marked by uncertainty and anguish. The act of turning to nature in moments of isolation is explored through the unflinching capture of a world shrouded in mourning.
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